22^ND OCTOBER 2000

1. All Ports Alert For Jayapataka To Be Issued
2. ISKCON Leaders Losing Faith in ISKCON
3. Classic Quotes

 

As we have reported in previous weeks, Jayapataka Swami (JPS) is on the run from the Indian legal system. We have even produced evidence where JPS has admitted this fact. As reported, JPS is fleeing since he has been charged with abetting the suicide of Suresvara Das, a devotee against whom the JPS camp filed false rape charges. Now, however, in a sensational development solicitors acting for the family of the deceased have decided to take international action to bring this fugitive to justice.

The solicitors have put together a package of material which will allow the immigration authorities of all countries to take the appropriate action.
The package consists of a cover letter which sets out all the material enclosed.  This cover letter, and a solicitor's letter which is the first item in the package, are reproduced below:

The following is a copy of item No. 1 of the package as stated in cover letter above:

We are seeking the help of the international devotee community to assist us in contacting their appropriate immigration authorities and presenting the above package of material to them. Many devotees had earlier contacted us asking how they could help after having been shocked by the needless death of Suresvara Das, and desiring to see justice served on behalf of an i nnocent Vaisanava.

If you wish to assist in this way then please send us your mailing address, and the full package mentioned above will be couriered immediately to yourselves. We especially seek the assistance of devotees who already have contact or connection with the appropriate authorities in their countries.

Our IRM contacts in different countries are already beginning to get the ball rolling but we wish to cover as many countries as possible, so please contact us.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you very much.

We have already reported on how even the GBC chairman has stated that the ISKCON society is 'disintegrating' (please see issue No. 21 - "GBC Special Issue - GBC Chairman Admits ISKCON 'Disintegrating' "). Now we have the following shocking statement from Abhirama Dasa. Abhirama Dasa is acting as the Managing Director of the S.M.D.P. (Sri Mayapur Development Project) which is the single most important and expensive project in the history of ISKCON. He is also a Regional Secretary for ISKCON South India, the Chairman of the M.V.T. (Mayapur Vrindavana Trust), and was/is on the board of the ISKCON Foundation.

However this is what he said recently in a confidential e-mail sent to a co-Temple President of an ISKCON Temple in South India under his charge:

Yet this is the person who has been entrusted with the biggest project in ISKCON's history, and has also been given a whole chunk of India and a lot more besides to look after. Clearly he is just following in his Chairman's footsteps. The malaise therefore obviously runs deep, beginning right at the top and running through all the sections of ISKCON's leadership. Recently His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami (BCS) also stated the following:

So we have a disintegrating society in a mess, which is nothing but a dull and blunt instrument in the hands of very incompetent and sometimes foolish hands, and which is nothing but a burden on the preaching. And this is what ISKCONs' OWN leaders are saying - not us! You would think that with this state of affairs there would be some humility in their attitude towards others.
Unfortunately not! Whilst freely admitting that their leadership has brought ISKCON to the brink of collapse, they still tried to expel the IRM -TWICE - just because we did not wish to surrender to this morally and spiritually bankrupt leadership!

Another example of this double standard can be seen in the same Bhagavatam lecture of BCS quoted above. In this he also says:

Here BCS states that:

1. We must REVIVE the ISKCON society. He states this 3 times.
2. He states that this revival must be based on restoring the spirit of how things were pre-77 - i.e. NO CHANGE
3. He states that the problem in the movement was that we made a mistake in the initiation system in 1977. That this led to Srila Prabhupada's position to be obscured, and that we must re-instate Srila Prabhupada's greatness back into the center of our society.

Now, there is a group that wishes to REVIVE ISKCON back to how things were in 1977 on the principle of No Change. This group also states that we made a mistake in 1977 in our initiation system, and that this has led to Srila Prabhupada's position being obscured and that we must therefore simply promote Srila Prabhupada's greatness to solve this problem. This group is called the ISKCON Revival Movement (IRM).

You would therefore think that Maharaja would have some sympathy with this group - since they are simply trying to the best of their ability to put Srila Prabhupada in the center as he keeps saying we must. Unfortunately no! BCS's response has been simply to support their expulsion - twice! Which again raises the question of just WHO BCS REALLY wants in the center. Because as soon as a group actually DOES try and put Srila Prabhupada in the center they are expelled for doing so. Even if we are putting Srila Prabhupada TOO MUCH in the center, at least we have the same goal in mind, which should bring some support and sympathy - not expulsion. And in any case how is it even possible to put Srila Prabhupada TOO MUCH in the center in his OWN society? This again exposes BCS's pontification regarding the obscuring of Srila Prabhupada's position as being nothing more than double-talk to try and obscure his OWN worship.

In this regular column we shall be highlighting the bizarre and contradictory world of our GBC and 'Gurus', who have occupied Srila Prabhupada's position on the pretext of being able to guide us out of darkness and back to Godhead.
However as this column will show over the coming weeks, these personalities would be better advised coming into the light themselves, and to move out of the way from blocking the clear and transcendental light which is emanating directly from Srila Prabhupada. Physician heal thyself!

 *Bhakti Caru Contradicts Sastric Injunctions*

Here BCS states that Siksa is more important than Diksa. Yet Srila Prabhupada states that the sastric injunctions declare that there is *no difference* between the siksa and diksa Gurus:

"According to sastric injunctions, there is no difference between siksa-guru and diksa-guru, and generally the siksa-guru later on becomes the diksa-guru"
(S:B, 4:12:32 Purport)

If there is *no difference* between the diksa and siksa gurus then how can siksa be *more important* than diksa?

*Bhakti Caru Obscures Srila Prabhupada's Position*

1. Here BCS clearly states that the Diksa is BASED on Siksa.
2. He also states that Srila Prabhupada is giving the pre-eminent Siksa.

The word pre-eminent means 'surpassing all others'. Thus BCS agrees that Srila Prabhupada's siksa surpasses any other siksa. Thus if Diksa is based on siksa then:

1. Since Srila Prabhupada gives the pre-eminent siksa, and diksa is BASED on this, Srila Prabhupada must also be giving Diksa.
2. Since out of all the siksa that exists in ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada's siksa surpasses all the other siksa on offer, he must ALSO be the pre-eminent DIKSA Guru in ISKCON, since Siksa is BASED on Diksa. And since one can only have ONE Diksa Guru, by definition Srila Prabhupada must the Diksa Guru of ISKCON - just as we state:

"A devotee must have only one initiating spiritual master because in the scriptures acceptance of more than one is always forbidden."
(CC, Adi:1:35)

Yet even after admitting all this, BCS decides to steal all of Srila Prabhupada's disciples and worship for HIMSELF, thus obscuring Srila Prabhupada's true position, and thus doing the very thing he claims he is trying to combat.

Srila Prabhupada - ISKCON's pre-eminent Diksa Guru - accept no substitutes!

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No 1. Invitation to Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa Puja
No 2. GBC Lose First Round of Court Case 
No 3. The Story VNN Refused to Publish 
No 4. Poison Theorists Accuse Adri of Complicity 
No 5. Iskcon Continues to Promote Child Abusers 
No 6. Invitation to Malaysia 
No 7. United World Body Formed 
No 8. Does Srila Prabhupada Support Poisoning Theory?
No 9. PADA Attacks IRM Position 
No 10. PADA Continues to Present False Evidence 
No 11. GBC Funded Video says Ritvik Spiritual 
No 12. Child Rapist Selected by Gurus to Defend their Legitimacy 
No 13. GBC Facing Perjury Charge in Calcutta High Court 
No 14. Sahajiyaism Makes a Comeback in Iskcon.
No 15. Govt. Minister Inaugurates Bangalore Rathayatra 
No 16. Iskcon Calcutta Triumphs Following Arson Attack 
No 17. Fighting Lies with Truth Not More Lies
No 18. GBC Resolutions Continue to Provide Laughter
No 19. Indian Leaders Endorse IRM Position That GBC Confused 
No 20. Convicted Child Abuser Officially 'Returns' To Parampara
No 21. GBC Chairman Admits ISKCON 'Disintegrating' 
No 22. Krishna Confirms ISKCON Re-Birth
No 23. Hare Krishna Explosion Begins In New York as IRM Temple Opens 
No 24. IRM Launches Media Campaign to Defend Srila Prabhupada
No 25. GBC Teaches That 'Living Gurus' NOT Required 
No 26. BBT Admits Books Changed To Fit GBC Philosophy 
No 27. Big Breakthrough For Krishna In Singapore 
No 28. Bangalore Tops World Book Distribution
No 29. City of New York to Honour Srila Prabhupada
No 30. Gurukula Lawsuit Special - The Facts
No 31. BBC Glorifies Srila Prabhupada to the World 
No 32. Harinama Revived in World Famous Times Square
No 33. ISKCON Guru on Run From Police - Suicide Case Special
No 34. GBC Declare All Out War
No 35. GBC Fail Again in Second Expulsion Attempt
No 36. Indian Press Glorifies New York IRM
No 37. ISKCON Temple In Bangladesh Joins IRM